The American Civil War erupted in 1861 with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, followed soon after by the First Battle of Bull Run. This video traces the opening shots of the war, the shockwaves ...

Movie based on Virginia Morton's "Marching Through Culpeper" in post-production, AI image portrays Union soldiers moving ...

How Abraham Lincoln and a magazine illustrator elevated Christmas to a national holiday, and used it to win the Civil War.

Attorneys for President Donald Trump have urged a federal judge to rule that Trump is entitled to presidential immunity from ...

Those who know U.S. history or the “legend” behind the creation of Santa Claus will recognize the name Thomas Nast.

Long before Facebook, Instagram, the internet, and other forms of social media, getting news and information out to the ...

The death of Viola Fletcher, the last survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, underscores what Trump is attacking ...

The American Civil War was arguably one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of the United States. Fought over slavery, it divided families and communities and, of course, the nation. It ...

Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...

This past June, at a No Kings rally outside a white clapboard church in a little brick town in the lower right-hand corner of Vermont, Green Mountaineers huddled together in raincoats under a ...

Co-anchor, "CBS Evening News;" Chief political analyst and senior national correspondent; Contributo Award-winning journalist and author John Dickerson is co-anchor of the" CBS Evening News" and chief ...

“The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED. It’s impossible to look around and not wonder whether the US is teetering on the ...